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CEFR READING PART PRACTICE – TRUE OR FALSE
Read the text and find out whether the statements A-F is True or False.
Put
A
if the statement is True or put
B
if the statement is False.
TASK 16
A) The English Channel is not deep.
B) The cost of the tunnel was two times as high as it was supposed.
C) To reach England from France by ferry is quicker than by tunnel.
D) The length of the Panama Canal is more than sixty metres.
E) The voyage is shorter through the Panama Canal.
F) The Panama Canal builders overcame a lot of difficulties.
The Channel tunnel links England with France and runs underground beneath the
relatively shallow English Channel. The current tunnel, finished in 1994, was built by
British and French private investors and cost more than $16 billion to complete, twice
its estimated budget. Cost overruns caused financial difficulties and threatened the
completion of the project. The main tunnel is 50 km long and runs from Folkestone,
England, to Calais, France, at an average depth of 40 m below the sea bed. The trip
takes about 35 minutes. Since ferries continue to compete with the tunnel, some
believe the tunnel is of only marginal economic importance. Nevertheless, it has
enormous symbolic importance as an unbroken link between Britain and the
Continent. Panama Canal across the Isthmus of Panama, in Central America allows
vessels to travel between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The waterway measures 64
km. The Panama Canal handles a large volume of world ship ping and enables vessels
to avoid traveling around South America, reducing their voyages by thousands of
miles and many days. The canal consists of artificially created lakes, channels, and a
series of locks, or water-filled chambers, that raise and lower ships through the
mountainous terrain of central Panama. Built by the United States from 1904 to 1914,
the Panama Canal posed major engineering challenges, such as damming a major
river and digging a channel through a mountain ridge. It was the largest and most
complex project of this kind ever undertaken at that time, employing tens of
thousands of workers and costing S350 million.
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